Motivation

• Wanting to have a stable version of my home server
• Learning more about Linux
• Learning more about Docker
• Learning more about networking

Method

• Use docker-compose file to set multi-container application
• Setup a service to auto-start applications
• Use mDNS to broadcast domain name in the local network
• Use OpenVPN to gain remote access to my home network
• Use Protainer to manage docker containers

---
version: "2.1"
services:
  transmission:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/transmission:latest
    container_name: transmission
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/Phoenix
      - TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME= #optional
      - USER= #optional
      - PASS= #optional
      - WHITELIST= #optional
      - PEERPORT= #optional
      - HOST_WHITELIST= #optional
    volumes:
      - ./config:/transmission/config
      - ./downloads:/downloads
    ports:
      - 9091:9091
      - 51413:51413
      - 51413:51413/udp
    restart: unless-stopped
  plex:
    image: lscr.io/linuxserver/plex:latest
    container_name: plex
    network_mode: host
    environment:
      - PUID=1000
      - PGID=1000
      - TZ=America/Phoenix
      - VERSION=docker
      - PLEX_CLAIM= #optional
    volumes:
      - ./config:/plex/config
      - ./tvseries:/tv
      - ./movies:/movies
    devices:
      - "/dev/dri:/dev/dri"
    restart: unless-stopped

Limitations

• Recoverability not yet tested.